Gim

//d͡ʒɪm// adj, name, noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Edible seaweed in Korean cuisine. uncountable
Adjective
  1. 1
    Neat; spruce. UK, archaic, dialectal
Proper Noun
  1. 1
    Alternative form of Kim (“Korean surname”); A surname from Korean, variant of Kim alt-of, alternative
  2. 2
    The mechanism through which flavour-changing neutral currents (FCNCs) are suppressed in loop diagrams. attributive, particle

    "GIM mechanism"

Etymology

Etymology 1

Korean 김 (gim)

Etymology 2

Compare gimp (adjective).

Etymology 3

Initialism of the surnames of Sheldon Glashow, John Iliopoulos, and Luciano Maiani, who published on the topic in 1970.

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